LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom

Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by dmos62 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @10:29AM (#29107639)

This could be solved by a lot of transperancy about what collected telemetry is saying. A user can then check if the users that opted-in to telemetry are representative of his own use cases and thus make an informed decision if he should opt-in as well (if he's not well represented). Telemtry is a lot like voting.

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Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by spoctrial on Thursday November 04, 2021 @10:39AM (#29107761)

The vast majority of people will not read about the collected telemetry, even fewer will read it and then make a decision to opt-in.The telemetry is optimizing for the vast majority, not the loud minority, hence opt-out works better in order to cater to a larger group of users. Your voting analogy is really bad.

With that said, I don't really like telemetry and will turn it off.

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Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by dmos62 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @06:08PM (#29113094)

I think voting is a good analogy for telemetry. You submit your use case to help decide development direction.

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Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by dblohm7 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:10PM (#29108927)

So, `about:telemetry`, https://telemetry.mozilla.org

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